#NaBloPoMo : It's amazing what they can do in 45 minutes

Yesterday a group of Tech enthusiastic learners descended upon the Tech Center filled with ideas, the first idea they wanted to carry out was an interview and tour of our building led by one of our custodians. The tour's focus: the haunted side of our building. Armed with and iPad, iRig microphone and middle school energy they set out and live streamed to our HixsonHub periscope channel

While one interview was taking place the host of our daily announcements recorded, and edited the newly renovated show.


While interviewing, live streaming, recording and editing was happening, a few students from a 7th grade team came down to pick my brain about Raspberry Pi. Their team teachers were recently awarded one and the learners were given the opportunity to set it up and explore the endless options that a Raspberry Pi offers. Lucky for me, a raspberry pi novice, I had a learner in the room who owned and has explored in depth the many facets of Raspberry Pi ownership, building, design, coding, etc. He spent a good portion of that time sharing what he did with his, and they discussed what they really wanted to make their Raspberry Pi do.


Then the reporters returned, and began researching and discussed their next possible broadcast, and how many views they had of their live stream.


While they discussed their show, another learner was working on updating the student made and managed website: hixsonhub.com


All in 45 minutes.

#NaBloPoMo : Blog Fuel

So I've begun this Marathon of daily blog posting for 30 days. We are all on to day 2.

Hopefully you've already pondered what will be fueling your daily blog posts. I started a list of ever growing ideas. 

Lucky for me there is rarely a dull day in the Tech Center so I figured it was about time to take my own advice (which I've been sharing with teachers for years now) and post pictures of the day to day going ons in our learner focused tech center.

Last week it was hopping:

Students worked on creating their weekly variety show. This is a collaboration of 2 after school clubs: iReporting (which meets on Tuesdays) and iProduction (which meets on Wednesdays.) More info on the clubs and collaboration in future posts.

A group of our Gifted Fine Arts learners (GFA) produced their first ever podcast, titled "The Typical Middle Schooler"

Check it out as part of the HixsonHub ON AIR podcast program lineup. 

A group of learners enthusiastic about technology who perform a plethora of technical work ranging from tech delivery to website development decided to live stream a comedy news show using the Periscope app.

Lastly another group of GFA students made this lovely art installation for us to honor Red Ribbon Week.

That sums up some of the more interesting points of last week, and I feel like it has given me even more to write about. 

Best of luck to all you Bloggers out there. 

If you have any questions or would like me to go into any more specific details on this post or future posts please leave me a comment.